McCaig Welles Gallery presents Bambule, a gallery wide installation and exhibition of artworks by the Zonenkinder Collective. The term “bambule” derives from the german argot and is traditionally used to describe a form of protest practiced by prison inmates – drumming with different objects, like spoons, inside jail cells to articulate resistance.

The Zonenkinder Collective describes their work as “meant as a confusing but positive counterbalance and alternative vision of living and as a creative statement against the status quo of greed, jealousy, arrogance, ignorance, self-righteousness, lack of liability and lack of respect the dignity of men”. Through murals, paintings and installations, the Zonenkinder Collective will transform the gallery into a visual epic meant to transport the viewer in to the peculiarity of their world and into the radicalism of their worldview.

The Zonenkinder Collective was established in 2000 by artists now residing in Hamburg, Germany. The collective’s street art career began in the early nineties and by 2001 they have had several group- and solo- exhibitions in France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland. McCaig-Welles Gallery now welcomes them to New York City.